Cheryl Rofer at Whirled View alerts us to this article in Foreign Affairs on "Behavioral Flexibility in Primates." I'm pretty cranky when it comes to Foreign Affairs -- for rather ordinary articles posing as grand scholarly statements -- but this is a nice one. Start at Whirled View and move on in. I basically agree with Cheryl on this one except that I'm not so sure any lines can be clearly drawn between mammals except genetic ones. The problem, however, is what you do with the fact that chimpanzees and humans share 98% of the same genome. Is it that special 2% that ensures human beings have driver's licenses and chimps don't (or at least ought not to)?
Oh, and camping in East Africa I once saw two plucky young baboon males doing the deed. That means we're all gay.
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